Oh hunny.

I’m sure there’s lots of things that don’t make sense to you.

Would you like me to simplify it for you, to make it easier for you understand, as it seems you’re one of the people who can’t control their drug use and may have actually fried their (already tiny to begin with) brain?

So you would do if for free?

Because you said you do that for a living. Meaning people pay you for the time you work on these things.

Have you any idea how costly that time is to your employer? That’s rhetorical, ofc you don’t.

Would you do go to work if it didn’t cover your rent?

You have admitted it does take some work. It doesn’t just happen, right.

So what is it you’re trying to say?

If he had your skills, he’d work for free? You would do the amount of work required, for free?

You’re just an arrogant dick who didn’t read the thread and said stupid shit. Simple as that.

Oh no, you’re just not reading the thread properly and going along with that other fool.

How about you actually read the thread instead of leaving snarky comments.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Oh they were, yes, you’re 100% correct.

This thread is about how people aren’t willing to cover the costs when labour is included.

Then you comment with “if he had more technical acumen, he wouldn’t need to do [the labour that people are unwilling to pay for]”.

If he doesn’t know how and doesn’t have the means to do something he shouldn’t be doing it. End of story.

He does know how. He’s saying he doesn’t have the means, because either he has to spend his time working full time, leaving no time for the labour people are unwilling to pay for, or people pay for the labour they’re unwilling to pay for, giving him the means, in which he will be able to do it, because he already has the knowledge.

Kinda how if someone gave me a huge plot of land, a quarry, and a billion dollars, I’d have no you’ve building a castle. But since I only know how to build one and don’t have the land, resource or time to labour a few hundred years building a castle bymeself, I’m not able to build a castle, but it’s not because I don’t know how to.

Maybe some reading comprehension or writing practice would do you good?

You’re saying he doesn’t need to do any work, that all thr work will just do itself, as long as he knows how it’s supposed to be done.

You don’t think maintaining a Mastodon instance takes any active input from the person maintaining the instance? Just knowing how to do it is enough to set up all the hardware and software required?

Sounds rather magical to me. Please explain

Haven’t had shrooms probably about since you were in diapers.

And I don’t drink liquor.

But hey, thanks for the input.

So youre saying if he just knew how to do it, he wouldn’t actually need to do it?

I know how to build a medieval castle with a moat and I’d have the technical acumen to build large sustainable hydroponic gardens there as well.

So why is it that I don’t have a castle, when I know how to build one?

Technical acumen?

You do realise things don’t happen just because you know how to do them? You still actually have to do them.

“Oh c’mon man, it’s your hobby, right You’d do it anyway?”

Also, it wasn’t exactly just leftists, but also my leftist friends who were always asking for “friend prices” when I drove them around when I drove a taxi. Like… you guys are getting special service, and I’m your friend, you get to skip the hour of waiting and fighting other drunks in the taxi queue.

It also would’ve been different if there was the chances of favours in return.

So like people who could actually help with the labour or in something other way put in work, maybe they’d be okay with just covering the hosting costs, but modding a community isn’t exactly the same work as maintaining the soft- and hardware. Alone, I presume.

And also is the “hosting costs” just like the costs of the services for the hosting, or does it incorporate all the cost for electricity to run the equipment as well?

Is it lack of empathy or greed? I never really could figure that out. Feels like a bit of both.

This just reminded me of how I saw the first consumer sodium battery on sale the other day

https://www.channelnews.com.au/elecom-unveils-worlds-first-sodium-ion-mobile-power-bank/

Having player around with that size empty barrels in the army (and one or two we had at home since I was a kid in our outbuilding sauna for kids to bathe in), I’m not really that worried for a bloke Dorne’s size, except for that lid.

The barrel itself is rather bouncy because of how big it is. As long as the bottom or the lid doesn’t fall directly on your head, you should be fine, and if the barrel is actually sideways completely and you hit the large center part, it’s just like a slight push. Might topple a smaller, unprepared dude, but not people Dorne’s size. The fact that he has to somewhat awkwardly fall on purpose after that (because the empty barrel was acting the role of a very heavy full barrel) is what has made it a meme, imo. As in, the barrel clearly didn’t do jack shit and he has to fall down himself.

Well that’s my memory of it. So I rewatched it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBG1dW17Mas

It actually could just as well be a stunt, as we don’t even see the actors front when the barrel actually hits. But it’s dropped from just above the cameraline and falls squarely with the flat side to the largest part of Worf’s (Michael or stunt) back.

Now I accept I can be wrong and I don’t know how it was actually done but I assume at most a small padding on the back should suffice. Because on that cut Worf is crouching the camera is slightly more zoomed in (not even noticeably). If the barrels dropped from as high and as long as it’s made to appear to, sure. But it’s just out of the camera line.

I don’t know, I’d like to do it myself and find out. I’d like to be a nameless stunt on some productions. I know how to take a fall really well and don’t really care for personal injuries anymore as long as they don’t stop me going. I think as a pretty average sized 183 /6ft dude I might be able to replace the generic whiteman hero type as long as I’m not facing the camera. Maybe even then from a bit further.

And yes I’m saying this all sober.

I think it’d kinds funny because while taking an empty barrel to the back isn’t really painful in any way, it’s still definitely something a way smaller person might be properly disturbed by.

And also something I don’t think actors would maybe even allowed to do nowadays or smth without a a stuntman.

Wait was it a stuntman or Michael Dorn. I think Dorn

Well how would I go about my business then?

I also have signal but for now most of the criminals I need to communicate with are on TG

Nah we good bro (I have zero objective data to back this up but I want to think it’s true because I’d be too lazy to move)

That’s not the format.

It’s “I’m a [noun/profession], not a [noun]”

Like keeping the same content, you would change “I don’t know…”

To “not an en passant expert”

Or something

I’m just anal no offense

Yes, you can influence the system while participating in it.

My point exactly.

You can’t completely isolate yourself and boycott everything that should be boycotted, and it’s not gonna be even marginally as effective as if a large group of people boycott a specific thing. Focus the economic power of many and you get results, instead of individually trying to boycott every single thing.

consumer, but did you prove that it’s necessary to be a consumer at all?

Depends on how you define it

In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.”

That’s trivial when youre boycotting a single company that isn’t relevant for some large industry, but try boycotting some large fossil fuels company.

You simply can not trace back the origins of all the products you use which have employed petroleum products at one point or another in the manufacturing process.

Being a moral consumer is legitimately impossible.

If you managed to have enough money to buy yourself a bit of land and built literally everything by hand, then perhaps you might avoid contributing to capitalism, but unless you plan to abandon literally all modern conveniences and hand-forge plumbing for your outhouse, it’s not going to work.

It’s not a strawman when there isn’t a version of the argument that isn’t hard to attack. I just steel-manned the argument and it still doesn’t work.

Seems pretty straightforward.